Residents of Mandur village, where Bengaluru city dumps about 1,800 tonnes of garbage every day, have decided to move court against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) repressive tactics. The decision came late on the night of Friday, June 6, following BBMP’s move to enforce Section 144 of CrPC (banning unlawful assembly of people) near the garbage dump till June 10. The village had closed down the landfill to more dumping on June 1 after the BBMP’s dumping contract with the panchayat expired on May 31. Section 144 was slapped on June 3. Village resident and one of the participants of the agitation against dumping of unprocessed garbage, Gopala Rao, said that government is adopting repressive tactics instead of addressing the villagers’ grievances, “The enforcement of Section 144 makes it clear that BBMP’s motive is to just dump its garbage, not to solve the issue.” He said garbage is being dumped illegally at the landfill under police protection

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